On Looking: Essays
by Lia Purpura
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Purpura's beautifully wrought second collection of lyric essays, addressing the ethics and aesthetics of seeing.Tags
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Maiasaura Another fragmented, thoughtful, lyrical work.
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When I say I love collections of essays and/or short stories, this is the sort of book I mean. Short pieces of writing that have the author's all put into them; gone over with a fine-tooth comb and polished. Only a handful of pages long each and so satisfying you wish there was more. Writing so good it both inspires and makes you want to give up forever. Phenomenal.
Gorgeous prose. Purpura writes in the style of the lyric essay--a literary form that is cousin to both the personal essay and the poem. Her writing is smart, beautiful, thought-provoking, and full of heart. She finds beauty in the ugly and the strange in an honest, humanizing way. Not an easy read, but a rewarding one.
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Lia Purpura is the author of "The Brighter the Veil, Poems of Grzegorz Musial: Berliner Tagebuch and Taste of Ash," and "Stone Sky Lifting," the 2000 winner of the Ohio State University/The Journal Award in Poetry. She lives in Baltimore, maryland, and teaches at Loyola College. (Bowker Author Biography)
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